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• SC will examine the issue of taxability of professional fees received by foreign law firms from Indian companies

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 444
  The Supreme Court has decided to examine the issue of whether foreign law firms charging professional fees from Indian companies and businessmen are liable to pay income tax in the country. A bench headed by Justice S H Kapadia has issued notices to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...
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• Women Still Under-representated as Law Firm Partners

  
  Cleveland Law Library Weblog — Authority: 116
  A brand new study on law.com indicates that women lawyers are still way behind their male counter-parts when it comes to making partner. Although women graduate from law schools as often as men, only 19.2% of partners across the country are women. At the rate women are going, experts claim there will not be an ...
  12 hours ago

• Staff Layoffs at Day Pitney

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 138
  Day Pitney has laid off 29 staff memebers in its third round of layoffs this year.  In may , the firm let go of 20 lawyers and deferred incoming associates and in February it cut 66 staff positions.  According to the firm, there won’t be any more layoffs this year and none are anticipated in early 2010. Day ...
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• 5259 Fewer Jobs at Top 250 Law Firms

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 138
  According to a report issued by the National Law Journal , the top 250 law firms cut 5,259 attorney positions this year in the worst year since the NLJ began compiling the statistics.  The firm shedding the most jobs was Latham & Watkins which has 444 fewer lawyers than last year.  The number of partners grew ...
  12 hours ago

• Health care reform, Common sense, Republicans, Democrats, Independents, American citizens, Government run health care opposed, No to socialist health care, No to bigger government, Fix the problems

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 590
  “83% of Americans have health insurance which leaves 17% uninsured. Health care should be made available, at low or no cost, to those uninsured AMERICANS. However, reforming the entire health care system to accommodate 17% of the population is like taking your car to the mechanic to overhaul the engine when it only ...
  13 hours ago

• Workin’ For the Weekend: Lawyers on the Kraft/Cadbury Situation

  
  WSJ.com: Law Blog — Authority: 741
  The Law Blog rounds up the lawyers on the Kraft/Cadbury takeover situation.
  17 hours ago

• Akerman Senterfitt Won’t Charge Leave Time for Swine Flu Absences

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 675
  Akerman Senterfitt has a new policy that encourages employees with the swine flu to stay home. The law firm won’t make employees take leave time for absences related to the H1N1 flu, the Washington Post reports. Senior marketing manager Carolyn Cuppernull told the newspaper she used the policy to stay home to care ...
  18 hours ago

• Rothstein ‘Doing Good,’ But Not Smoking Cigars

  
  WSJ.com: Law Blog — Authority: 741
  Embattled Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein chatted briefly with a Miami Herald reporter on Sunday, and put on a brave face.
  18 hours ago

• Top 250 Law Firms Collectively Shrank by 5,259 Lawyers

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 675
  A survey of the nation’s top 250 law firms shows they collectively shed 5,259 lawyers in the past year, a drop of 4 percent. The drop is the largest since the National Law Journal started collecting the information in 1978. The survey has recorded only two other declines—a drop of less than 1 percent in 1993, and ...
  18 hours ago

• Rothstein in Upbeat Mood, Says He’s Smoking Cigars with His Lawyer

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 675
  The Florida lawyer under investigation for an alleged Ponzi scheme says he’s doing just fine, but the lawyer representing him begs to differ. Lawyer Scott Rothstein spoke to the Miami Herald while holed up in an undisclosed location with his lawyer, Marc Nurik. “I am sitting here smoking cigars with Marc, ...
  19 hours ago

• Cleary Matches Cravath Bonuses; Is a Trend Afoot?

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 675
  Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has announced associate bonuses ranging from $7,500 to $30,000. The amounts may sound familiar. Last week, Cravath Swaine & Moore was the first major law firm to announce bonuses, and Cleary’s bonuses match those being paid by Cravath, according to Above the Law, the Wall ...
  19 hours ago

• news! Orrick does like it said it would!

  
  The Shark — Authority: 125
  [Brian] Some Shark readers may not regularly read Above The Law. Damn popular blog, yeah, but some days it’s also liable to scare you right out of your chosen profession. So if you missed it, bloggers there found it remarkable...
  3 days ago

• New York Defense Attorneys Showing Their Empathetic Sides

  
  WSJ.com: Law Blog — Authority: 741
  The past couple of days have shown us a decidedly softer side to the perhaps stereotypical tough-talking New York defense attorney.
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• Rothstein Firm Is Running on Fumes, Newspaper Says

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 675
  Despite an effort by partner and president Stuart Rosenfeldt to create a new law firm out of the apparent ashes of Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, the well-known Fort Lauderdale, Fla., law firm is running on fumes. After stunning revelations of alleged misconduct by a top partner, the departure of some other lawyers, a ...
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• Cleary Gottlieb Follows Cravath on Bonuses

  
  JD Journal — Authority: 138
  Cleary Gottlieb Gottlieb   has confirmed their bonus schedule for this year, which falls right in line with Cravath.  Cravath was the first major law firm to announce  its year end bonuses.  The bar was set so low by Cravath that it’s no great feat for other firms to meet it. Gottlieb Like Cravath, ...
  3 days ago

• ‘Tis the Season: Cleary Matches Cravath Bonuses

  
  WSJ.com: Law Blog — Authority: 741
  This just in: Cleary Gottlieb has matched the Cravath bonuses we reported early this week. The memo reads as follows (click here to read the PDF):-- MEMORANDUM FOR ALL ASSOCIATES ON THE U.S. SALARY SCALERe: 2009 BonusesOn behalf of the partners of the Firm, we are pleased to announce year-endbonuses for associates ...
  3 days ago

• Legal Sector Lost 5,800 Jobs Last Month, Labor Bureau Says

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 675
  As the nations unemployment rate topped 10 percent last month, lawyers were not spared. The legal sector lost 5,800 jobs, according to seasonally adjusted statistics in a just-released report (PDF) from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. When not seasonally adjusted, the figures show a gain of 1,500 jobs, but that ...
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• Law Profs Gone Wild! UT’s Bobbitt Slams Milberg in Suit

  
  WSJ.com: Law Blog — Authority: 741
  University of Texas law professor Phillip Bobbitt earlier this week sued the law firm formerly known as Milberg Weiss, alleging malpractice in a suit in which he was a plaintiff.
  3 days ago

• Two Law Firms Housed in Orlando Building Where Shooter Left One Dead

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 675
  At least two law firms are housed in an Orlando, Fla., office building that was the site of a shooting today that left at least one person dead and five others injured. Police say the suspect, Jason Rodriguez, is a former engineer who worked for a transportation consulting firm in the high-rise building known as ...
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• ‘Star Associate’ Alleges Breakdown Over Work Conditions, Sues Sedgwick & Partner

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 675
  A former associate in the New York office of Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold has filed a disability discrimination suit against the firm and an a partner he alleges was abusive, contending that he was driven to a breakdown with overwork and mistreatment and then abruptly fired when he had recovered and was ready to ...
  3 days ago

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